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Friday, August 26, 2016

UNDERSTANDING THE MIDDLE EAST

UNDERSTANDING THE
MIDDLE EAST

A cranky opinion for

CRANKY OPINION SATURDAY

The following is the opinion of a
cranky old man with little knowledge of the topic opined.Opposing opinions are welcome and this week
are probably correct.As usual, no name calling
and that means you, you big stupid head!

One thing
important about this year’s election is how the candidates plan to act in the Middle
East.The Middle East is very confusing.There are many Middle East experts advising
the US how to act in this area.Most of
them cannot seem to agree.

It is clear
that we need and want oil that comes from this area.Other than the oil and not having planes fly
into our buildings or our citizen’s heads chopped off we really don’t give a
crap about this area.We won’t say that
because we really want the oil.One
thing is clear, whatever actions we have taken in the Middle East has done
nothing to improve the lives of the people who live there.We do not understand these people; they do
not understand us.

The following is a
summary of my understanding of the current situation in the Middle East:

ISIS is a group of religious fanatics
that want to convert everyone in the world to their fanatical religious
beliefs.They are brutal and ruthless.Al Qaida is another group pretty much the same
as ISIS except they don’t like each other and the Taliban are like ISIS and Al
Qaida and they will work with anyone that helps them defeat the Afghanistan
government.

There is a revolution in Syria.The rebels want to defeat the government and
ISIS, ISIS wants to defeat the rebels and the government.The Syrian government hates ISIS and the
rebels

Iran hates ISIS and Iraq and Syrian
rebels.

Russia likes Syria and hates ISIS and
the Syrian rebels.

Russia likes Iran and sells them
weapons

Libya hates ISIS and is a mess in
general

Iraq hates Iran, except they both
hate ISIS and are fighting together against ISIS

The US does not like Iran and Iran
hates the US

Saudi Arabia hates Yemen and Iran

Egypt is mostly a mess internally and hates Israel

Israel just wants to be left alone

Pakistan and India hate each other

Sunni Muslims hate Shia Muslims and
Shia Muslims hate Sunni Muslims

Afghanistan is fighting ISIS and the
Taliban and Al Qaida

The USA is fighting ISIS, Taliban, Al
Qaida and are siding with the Syrian rebels but working with Russia in fighting
ISIS who we sometimes call IS, except President Obama calls them ISIL and
most of the Mideast calls ISIS Daesh.

Palestine is not really even a
country.They want Israel to die as does
the rest of the Middle East.All of the
Middle East loves Palestine, except they don’t seem to do anything to help them
besides using them to hurt Israel.

Israel likes the US and they don’t
take stuff from us.

Everyone else hates the US except for
whatever stuff they can get from us.

Everyone hates Israel except the US,
and sometimes the US is not so clear on that.

The US tries to like everyone except
Iran and Syria and Libya

Turkey hates the Kurds and ISIS

The Kurds hate ISIS and some of
Turkey

The US likes Turkey, but Turkey
doesn’t always like the US and the US likes the Kurds but won’t help them
because we don’t want to piss off Turkey.

Jordan hates ISIS, and we like
Jordan…they seem pretty cool.

There are a bunch of other little countries
that have oil and are nice to the US so we help them keep their oil from bigger
countries.

Then some of the countries have
tribes that seem to act separate from their country and lots of these tribes
don’t like each other.

I am sure I
have a lot of this wrong, but the point is it is very complicated.Whatever we do is going to piss off a bunch
of countries, tribes and people.In the
last 30 years, whatever we have done has only made things worse.

My position
would be to pump so much friggin, fracken oil of our own that we don’t need to
give a rat’s backside what happens in the Middle East.We should just step back and except for
helping Israel if they need help we do nothing.Let everyone sort it out on their own…might take a few centuries, but
still we need to butt out.

I probably
shouldn’t be President.

The preceding was the opinion of a
cranky old man and not necessarily that of management (except for the shouldn’t
be President part) …Mrs. Cranky.

24 comments:

I say we just drill a well very very very deep, all the way through the core of the earth, and come up underneath the Mid East and SUCK ALL THEIR OIL OUT FROM UNDER THEM! Then they can all go f__k their camels and their cousins and each other, I don't care. :)

I agree with you that America, and any other countries involved, should butt out and leave them to fight it out for themselves. Don't you get enough oil from all those Texas oil rigs?Maybe you could all ride pushbikes for a while...

It's too late now Joe. They are here and growing. They tell us often what they plan and many never listen. Islam shall rule the world. They mean that. They are not tolerant of any religion except Islam.

Obama should stay out of our politics too. I would like to see how Trump deals with it all. Who knows how he'd deal with it Better than Clinton, that's for sure. As long as the situation at home is okay and you get to keep Tony Blair, that's fine. IS hates everybody and we should wipe them out. They're just a bunch of no-hopers nobody would miss.

My understanding is that we really don't need oil from the Middle East. Our production has nearly doubled over the last seven years and the oil we import comes from Canada, not the Middle East. This is not to say we don't want their oil, but we'd all be better off eliminating our dependency on fossil fuel as quickly as possible.

Wow, read the comments above. Tells you where we are (nobody has a clue) to where we're going (we're already there, we're going left, we're going right, etc) and how very, very little we know about economics, the Middle East, and our place in the world. Very informative, Joeh. thanks,Mike

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